Pangea Day took place on May 10th, 2008.

Pangea was the name given to the single land mass on earth before it split into the 7 continents. It was a global event and film festival taking place in 100 countries about world peace, global unity and seeing through the eyes of the other.

BARKA fully embraced this event and put several things in motion through it:

-BARKA Networks, The BARKA Foundation's nonprofit media arm created "BARKA! PANGEA!" a 5-minute short film for submission to the Pangea Day film festival.  Check it out and let us know what you think.

-WALK FOR WATER: On May 10th, from 9am to noon, BARKA joined together with Monument Mountain Regional High School, Railroad Street Youth Project, Pathways to Peace, The Colonial Theatre, Healing Winds and Greenagers/Center for Peace through Culture to produce a "Walk for Water" to raise the funding necessary to drill a well in a small bush village of Burkina Faso known to locals simply as "La Petite".  100% of funds are earmarked toward well drilling.

Check out the poster for the event.

Monument Mountain and RSYP formed Street Teams to promote this event, raise funds and galvanize support. 

Indigenous African women walk an average of 6-miles a day carrying 40 pounds of water on their heads for their families. Special thanks to Emilyn and Theresa Bona for their genius in helping to hatch this endeavor to have a community Walk for Water to raise funds to drill a well and create awareness of water scarcity worldwide.

-PANGEA DAY FILM SCREENING: BARKA hosted the free Berkshire Pangea Day screening at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, MA.  Its film entry BARKA!Pangea! was screened immediatey prior the global broadcast.

Thank you to all those who took part and helped us to raise $4000 which will go toward drilling the first "BARKA Burkina" well in Burkina Faso.  On our forthcoming trip to Burkina we will be working with infrastructure partners on the ground, determining the exact place of the well to serve the greatest number of people, and working with the village to engender their help and support in this blessed process.

Pangea Day and the International Day of Peace, two global events about bringing the world together as a village and unified family serve as bookends to this series of events and endeavors that BARKA has set into motion to raise the living standards and quality of life in Burkina Faso and to embark on devising a locally based, indigenously sensitive template of cooperation to achieve MDGs.